One of them is the scene in the field with the chandeliers and cars and furniture. How eerie and surreal that was.

Oh yes. That is one of the most haunting images, and captures again the strangeness of Europe-in-Asia-during-war in a surreal peak.

Re: Jim's devotion to Mrs. Victor - I think it got cemented when, after Basie had kicked him out, more or less, she just took him back without saying a word and pinned the few pictures from the papers he had to the wall just where they were, and put his airplane just where it was, thereby showing that she cared very much and knew him.